The latest version of Frink has some interesting new features: * The "input" function can now prompt the user for multiple pieces of information with a nice...
... I laughed when I read this. however, when repeating the story to otehrs I was told: "A monkey is a program which simulates thousands of random inputs,...
Frink now allows C/C++/Java-style block comments that can span multiple lines or part of a line. In other words, comments that look like this: /* This is a...
=== SUPERMOON? OR PRETTY CLOSE TO AVERAGE? === The much-hyped "supermoon" of this past evening was overhyped and poorly-reported by a lot of media. Some...
As you may have seen from my postings on "pi day," I've been playing around with Frink programs to generate lots and lots of digits of pi. I've written a few...
In response to my note about graphing digits from pi yesterday, I've found an even more interesting sequence: http://futureboy.us/temp/pigraph.html I'll also...
I tried to improve the speed of root.frink by using Newton–Raphson division but instead it tripled the time spent in sqrt. (for 10000 digits) The time was...
... Thanks for doing that experiment! I did approximately the same test when I was trying to make it faster. I implemented Newton division (or rather just...
You could find some general arithmetic speedup techniques in the paper: http://downloads.hindawi.com/journals/es/2007/061721.pdf Section 6 and 7 deal with...
Hi Alan, This could go on-list, *but it's so quiet there.* I was mangling, uh, exploring root.frink again and recalled an integer sequence I tried to extend...
Bruce, Why don't you find the prime factors of x? The smallest factor f which makes f*x a square contains the prime factors of x, which have odd exponent....
... Well, it did go on-list. :) I'm considering creating a second list for more in-depth programming discussions for those who want to dig deeply into...
Hi Laszlo, Forgive me, you are correct, but I was only saying that the two ways I found to solve my for-fun problem use either Big square roots or AND, OR...
New additions to today's (2011-04-12) release of Frink: * Frink now returns exact integer and rational roots for numbers when possible. Previously, exact...
Alan, It would be nice if there were some kind of active connection between the two lists. Perhaps each email list optionally reporting a count of posts to the...
I have created a new mailing list (frink-discuss) for more in-depth discussions about Frink: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/frink-discuss/ The new list is...
The current version of Frink adds functions that you can use to perform date/time math with leap seconds taken into account. See the Leap Seconds section of...
The current release of frink works around a bug in Java's Calendar.add method which exists in some JVMs. This would cause displayed times of day to be...
Frink's standard data file has been updated with 2010 CODATA values for many constants (particle masses, charges, gravitational constant, Planck's constant,...
Here's a little Christmas ornament from me to you. It's an icosahedral projection of the earth that you can cut out (leave some tabs to glue together! That...
... If you want a BIGGER challenge, you can also try Jupiter: http://futureboy.us/images/jupiter.png If you want to go further, you can use the original Frink...
The new release of Frink has some nice new features: * There's a new Writer class that enables easy writing to files without including external libraries or...
Frink can now write its graphics to an HTML5 file, using the new HTML5 canvas feature. This allows efficient transmission of vector graphics, as well as...
The latest release of Frink (2012-11-07) fixes problems with rendering ellipses in HTML5. They were being rendered incorrectly in some cases. (The provisional...
Frink's graphics libraries are now vastly more powerful! The most recent release adds the ability to rotate, translate and scale graphics on all platforms!...
Happy Frink Day! Frink became provably Turing-complete 11 years ago today, on December 12, 2001, at 10:16 PM MST when array manipulation first became possible....
Happy ongoing Frink Day! The current release of Frink (2012-12-13) adds convenience functions to make scaling and rotating graphics around a point even easier....
